slow-pitch

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Softball in which there are ten players to a team and legal pitches must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.

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Examples

THROW STRIKES: Nothing makes a slow-pitch softball game slower and worse than the pitcher who thinks he or she is Eddie Feigner or Jennie Finch and unleashes an obnoxious series of spins and trick pitches.

ESPN's backstory is remarkable: a $9,000 investment, goosed by eccentric Getty money, that survived on Aussie Rules football and slow-pitch softball and teetered on the verge of liquidation before it exploded into a sports behemoth shown in 200 countries in 16 languages.